Quotes by Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

Government

Party

Patriotic

After the White House what is there to do but drink?

Drink

House

White

But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man’s wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation’s humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

Humble

Men

Passion

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

Patriotic

Political

Presidential

I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.

Children

Country

Father

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

Authority

Charity

Constitution

I find the remark, “Tis distance lends enchantment to the view” is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

Distance

Political

Views

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

Heartless

War

Way

I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.

Blood

Devastation

War

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

Boundless

Past

Your Future

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Humble

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Knaves

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Left

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Quotes by Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

After the White House what is there to do but drink?

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

I find the remark, “Tis distance lends enchantment to the view” is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

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